Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

then God ‘brought them to the man’, to ‘see what he would call them’. To get hung-up on the narrative description of what God has made misses the point.

Mark, do you not see a difference between the woman and the animals? Do you not see that the animals were brought for the purpose of Adam’s naming him, but that the woman was brought for a different purpose? Do you not see that the woman was brought for marriage? Is not marriage and becoming “one flesh” the only identified reason for bringing the woman to the man?

The emphasis of the passage is not on that, it is on the declaration of the man- this is what is being stressed, not the narrative.

The narrative sets up the context of the declaration. You cannot ignore what God has done as if man is independent of the woman and has been given a rule over humans. You are reading into the text an importance of “rule” that is not there nor is ever given to the man at any other point of history.